Cat Poems and Cat Stories

I am a lover of cat poems and stories and felt that it was about time that Our Happy Cat.Com had a dedicated area to celebrate this wonderful medium.

Visitors to the site can now enjoy a wealth of wonderful poems and stories both original and classic submitted by other cat lovers and writers.

I know many or you like to write your own cat poems and stories and some are even professional writers, I thought that it was a shame not to allow you to share some of your work with our other visitors to the site.

So if you have poems and stories you would like to share with the rest of us please send them to us. I can't wait to see just how creative you all are.

So get your creative hats on and Submit Here all your cat poems and stories.

Just to get things started i would like to share one of my favourite cat poems with you all.

Macavity: The Mystery Cat
by Thomas Stearns Eliot

Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw -
For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
And when you reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air -
But I tell you once and once again, Macavity's not there!

Mcavity's a ginger cat, he's very tall and thin;
You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in.
His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed;
His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed.
He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake;
And when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square -
But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!

He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)
And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's.
And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled,
Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled,
Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair -
Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there!

And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty's gone astray,
Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way,
There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair -
But it's useless to investigate - Mcavity's not there!
And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say:
`It must have been Macavity!' - but he's a mile away.
You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs,
Or engaged in doing complicated long-division sums.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
He always has an alibi, and one or two to spaer:
At whatever time the deed took place - MACAVITY WASN'T THERE!
And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known
(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)
Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time
Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!

Have A Great Cat Poem or Story?

Do you have your own cat poem or story to share with the rest of us? Great, simply submit it below and soon other vistors to the site the world over and can be reading it in no time.

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Lucy 

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I scooped her up and took her home…
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And what did you bring?
You beautiful soft-furred tiny thing
Seemingly afraid of everything
Yet sparky too
One green eye and ...

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